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Dec 2016
7:11pm, 5 Dec 2016
7,004 posts
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lammo
Wow Rev and GM some impressive losses there, well done.
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Dec 2016
7:11pm, 5 Dec 2016
7,005 posts
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lammo
Wow Rev and GM some impressive losses there, well done.
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Dec 2016
7:12pm, 5 Dec 2016
7,006 posts
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lammo
So good I posted twice 
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Dec 2016
7:15pm, 5 Dec 2016
14,799 posts
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GimmeMedals
😃
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Dec 2016
9:21am, 6 Dec 2016
3,189 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Thank you, lammo.
Thank you, lammo.
It seems to have gone excruciatingly slowly for me these past couple of weeks.... but, finally this morning I reached the milestone of 3 1/2 stone down since the start of July. Well chuffed with that.... now to consolidate it with a few more pounds this side of Christmas.
I had my first Christmas 'do' last night - the house group bring and share social. I brought an antipasti platter of meat, cheese and olives. David brought some Indian snacks - and checking the label, I thought I could probably tolerate one of the little onion bhajis at 3.8g carb. There were a few other keto-friendly options as well - I didn't go hungry. No pudding, despite the veritable smorgasbord, so I am pleased with myself about that.
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Dec 2016
11:50am, 6 Dec 2016
3,958 posts
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Hark the Helegant Angels Sing
Query... what does keto-friendly mean?
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Dec 2016
5:15pm, 6 Dec 2016
3,190 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Keto is short for ketogenic. A ketogenic diet is one which is very low in carbs and moderate in protein. That maintains you in a state of nutritional ketosis, where most of your energy comes from metabolising fat rather than carbs. That can be fat from your food, or from your body.
Keto-friendly simply means a food or recipe with a low carb content, so you can eat it and stay in ketosis. You typically need to be under 50g carbs per day, maybe a bit less - I typically eat 20-30. So a typical mince pie at 35g carbs is probably off the menu. But I have an alternative recipe, which comes in at 4.1g per pie. I can enjoy one, or even two of those... and all else being equal, I will still be in ketosis.
Lower carb is good for me because I have diabetes, and the less glucose you put in, the less my blood glucose will rise. But the specific benefit of keto that makes it attractive is that it suppresses appetite. I am just much less hungry. And that makes it much, much easier not to nibble and graze and pick etc.
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Dec 2016
6:46pm, 6 Dec 2016
3,961 posts
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Hark the Helegant Angels Sing
Interesting. Thinking back many years to another diet with similar terminology, do you have to drink a lot of water?
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Dec 2016
11:25pm, 6 Dec 2016
3,191 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Drinking lots is recommended during the transition from high to low carb. Once you're adapted, just drink to thirst. Being in ketosis changes the way the kidneys process sodium - you don't retain as much, so low-carbers need more salt in the diet. Especially if avoiding highly processed foods, which is where the average person gets most of their salt from.
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Dec 2016
11:32pm, 6 Dec 2016
3,192 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Just realised how many times I said typical 3 posts ago!
A bit further on the drinking... there is a phrase 'keto flu' to describe the symptoms many people experience when they first go low,carb. Things like feeling headaches, muzzy-headed, tired and lethargic. Drinking lots of water and taking salt helps mitigate them. I didn't really suffer, to be honest.
But I was listening to a podcast yesterday in which someone suggested a change of terminology. Rather than call it keto flu, which suggests going keto makes you ill, call it carb withdrawal. Your body has to change from a state in which it always expects a supply of carbs, to one it which it is very happy to run on the fat. It's like when you start running - it takes a while for your body to adapt to the demands you are making of it, because it's got out of the habit. But it's perfectly capable of doing it.
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